2023
Feature Documentary(World Premiere)(Best Feature Documentary Nominee)

Dancing the Stumble (Mantjé Tonbé Sé Viv)

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TW: Self-harm
CC
Closed captions online
OC
Open captions in-person

In Martinique, a psychiatric daycare hospital welcomes a young artist-researcher to lead Bèlè dance and music workshops. The film crafts an intimate dialogue between the director’s inner questions, the words of those who learn to live with a psychiatric diagnosis and the ancestral energy of Bèlè.

Screenings

Virtual

August 5 – August 7

Directors Spotlight

A photograph shows a black and white portrait of Wally Fall standing outside.

Wally Fall

Director

Wally Fall is a filmmaker of Senegalese and Martinican descent who grew up in Martinique. After taking evening classes on video filmmaking and editing in London, he gained much of his early experience in Europe, the Caribbean and Africa. In 2016, along with fellow filmmakers, he founded Cinemawon, a film collective dedicated to creating new spaces to screen films mostly overlooked from the Caribbean, Africa and other Afro-diasporic spaces. It operates mostly in the French colonies of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. Since 2017 he is back in the Caribbean in Guadeloupe, where he lives and works. In 2021 he was a curatorial fellow at the 66th Flaherty Seminar, and his short film Fouyé Zétwal (Plowing the Stars) was selected at BlackStar’s 10th anniversary edition. Dancing the Stumble (Mantjé tonbé sé viv) is his fourth film.

Year
2023
Runtime
63 minutes
Country
France
Language
French, Martinique Creole
Director
Wally Fall
Cast
Siméline Jean-Baptiste, Mehdi Zaazoua, Chocolat, Malik, Sandrine
Cinematographer
Karine Aulnette
Co Producer
France Télévisions Martinique la 1ère
Composer
Marcel Jean-Baptiste
Editor
Christelle Berry
Executive Producer
Jean-Marie Gigon / SaNoSi Productions
Screenwriter
Wally Fall
Premiere
World

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